Young Adam - Couverture souple

Trocchi, Alexander

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0862416248 ISBN 13 : 9780862416249

Editeur : Rebel inc., 1996

Synopsis

Originally published in 1957, this is an existentialist murder thriller set on a canal somewhere between Edinburgh and Glasgow. The corpse of a naked woman floats downstream and an innocent man is tried for the crime. Alexander Trocchi is the author of "Cain's Book".

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Alexander Trocchi was born on the 30th July 1925 in Glasgow to a Scottish mother and Italian father. On graduating from the University of Glasgow in the early 1950s, he obtained a travelling grant that allowed him to relocate to continental Europe. He first lived in Paris and edited the literary magazine Merlin, which published Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, Christopher Logue, and Pablo Neruda. It was in Paris that he acquired a lifelong heroin addiction, which continued after moving to America and settling in New York. In the 1960s Trocchi lived in Kensington, London where he later died of pneumonia in 1984.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Trocchi's narrator is an outsider; a drifter working for the skipper of a barge. Together they discover a young woman's corpse floating in the canal. Tensions increase in cramped confines with the narrator's highly charged seduction of the skipper's wife. Compulsively readable, this is no ordinary thriller. It challenges conventional morality. The certainty of events and their meaning is far from objective.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rebel inc.
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0862416248
• ISBN 13: 9780862416249
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 188
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible